MUVE Outdoor 2022 will see the opening of Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice at the National Gallery of Washington in November. This show on the master of the Venetian Renaissance was to have followed but will now precede the show that was programmed for Palazzo Ducale but which has been put back due to the pandemic to the Spring of 2023. In February, the exhibition Wonder and Inspiration. Venice and the Arts of Islam will open in March in the Museum of Islamic Civilization in the Emirate of Sharjah. It focuses on the precious and sophisticated arts of Islam, which came to Venice – a bridge between East and West – over the centuries and found their way into the houses of merchants and finally, after the fall of the Serenissima, into its museum collections, from where the works and objects on display come. Finally, in September, an itinerant virtual exhibition, Venise et la Mer, will be presented in the Grand Palais at the Bastille in Paris. The product of a collaboration between the Fondazione MUVE, RMN - Réunion des Musées Nationaux and the French start-up ICONEM, it uses an innovative digital approach to enable an international audience to discover and explore a city with a great past that is looking to the future.

2022 is the International Year of Glass and the Fondazione MUVE is taking part with the Museo del Vetro di Murano, grasping the opportunity to further enhance knowledge of artistic glassmaking and its potential for creativity, design, technical execution and sustainability. It will participate in The Venice Glass Week and continue the Perle 2.0 project (the Art of Glass Beads was inscribed in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2020), the collaboration with the lagoon’s glassmaking committee for the archaeological glass patrimony, other study activities and temporary exhibitions. In June the IV Biennale del Merletto - 4th Lace Biennale will be held in the Museo del Merletto di Burano . Lace making is an ancient traditional art in the lagoon and the procedue has been begun to obtain UNESCO recognition in order to preserve and promote it, also through contemporary interpretations.

The 150th anniversary of Giovanni Miani, the musicologist, patriot, collector and, above all, great explorer falls in 2022. A large room has been devoted to him in the Museo di Storia Naturale Giancarlo Ligabue, featuring the ethnographic collection resulting from his expeditions, which include one of the most adventurous chapters in the history of the discovery of the source of the Nile. In view of the upcoming anniversary the museum has begun a project to rediscover, study, survey and lend value to the collection and other collections built up by the explorer, in collaboration with other Italian and European institutions. Numerous initiatives will be launched for the general public in the course of the year, and during the months of celebration his diaries and autograph illustrations, now held in the library and only consultable by scholars, will be on public display in the room dedicated to him. In June the Museo at Fondaco dei Turchi is also hosting The Living Sea, an exhibition by the photographer and environmental philanthropist Hussein Aga Khan, curated by Marevivo, a non-profit organization of social utility, and FON Focused on Nature. This will be followed, in the autumn, by the 15th Abissi Underwater Photo Venice, the international underwater photographic show and competition.

The work to monitor the permanent collections, conduct scientific cataloguing, evaluate the state of conservation of the works and draw up annual restoration plans ensures that Venice’s artistic-historic heritage remains in an optimal state. The work of conservators also includes activities that now feed into the drawing up of scientific catalogues of the vast collections held and displayed in the museums, in response to an age-old request that is now being met. The volume Di Famiglie e di Persone. Guida agli archivi storici dei Musei Civici di Venezia secc. XI-XXI was published in 2021, and in 2022 publication is due to start of a series of Cataloghi generali (General catalogues) of the foundation’s different collections. The first volume to be printed will be on Renaissance majolicas (Maiolica del Rinascimento), which is due to be followed by three further volumes on miniature portraits (Ritratti in miniatura), 17th and 18th-century painting (Pittura del Sei e Settecento ) and the 19th and 20th-century painting collections of Ca’ Pesaro (Collezioni di Pittura del XIX e XX Secolo di Ca’ Pesaro).

As always, MUVE Education has a wide and well developed educational offering in 2022, with thematic itineraries, workshops and various kinds of activities, some of which link in with the main temporary exhibitions. These are aimed at every tier of the education system, teachers, families, adults and those with special needs.